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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1916
Page
4
Letters discuss Indian forecasts for a heavier snowfall this winter and contrasting Minnesota prophecies of a mild season. The page then shifts to Christmas candy recipes, mint paste making, date and nut confections, and guidance on table manners, etiquette, coin bracelet penalties, and color choices for white ivory woodwork with a cream wall suggestion.
A reader likely familiar with silent era cinema sees a dense, tabloid style roundup naming actors such as Dorothy Davenport, Wallace Reid, Lasky, May Allison, Bessie Barris, Mary Pickford, and Charlie Chaplin among others. The piece ties marriages and screen roles to current theater showings at venues like the Coliseum, Rex, Mission, Colonial, Liberty, Clemmer, and Strand with titles including The Victoria Cross, Unprotected, Purity, The Sunbeam, and Miss Jackie of the Navy.
A market report lists prices for hay oats straw and Timothy from Eastern Washington, with figures for wheat hay and various storage forms. It also shows selling prices to retailers for butter cheese eggs and meat products and notes poultry and turkey prices. A German medical authority states that 15 minutes of sun exposure during high altitude flight could kill tuberculosis germs.
Seattle packer Charles H. Frye announces plans for a major distribution plant in San Francisco to handle cold storage meats. Frye & Co. already operates a California distributing agency, but growth demands a new site costing $50,000 and a building project estimated at $50,000 more.
Russellville Arkansas enforces Sunday laws so strictly that even making a telephone call on Sunday is prohibited authorities cite religious observance and public order concerns as the basis for the rule.
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